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In the News (Tue 21 May 13)

  
  Xaviera Hollander has a Bed and Breakfast Service in Amsterdam Enjoy her famous hospitality !
Xaviera Hollander has a Bed and Breakfast Service in Amsterdam Enjoy her famous hospitality !
Xaviera's Bed and Breakfast on the gold coast of Amsterdam.
Two internationally trained staff members will look after your needs at all times and Xaviera Hollander herself will be your hostess of course.
www.xavierahollander.com /sleeper   (286 words)

  
  'Happy Hooker' author Xaviera Hollander marries boyfriend in Amsterdam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Hollander wrote 1972's "The Happy Hooker," describing her career as a sex worker and brothel owner in New York.
Hollander, 63, married de Haan, 53, in "a quiet ceremony attended by family and friends," she wrote in an e-mail response to a query by The Associated Press.
Hollander runs a bed-and-breakfast in Amsterdam, where she is an active patron of theatrical and artistic circles.
www.cbc.ca /cp/Oddities/070102/K010204AU.html   (1209 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Xaviera Hollander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Hollander has had some famous guests (Dennis Hopper is coming soon) - and some stories to tell, such as the time a Finnish guest was locked in the bathroom for an hour and had to be let out by a Christian Scientist - of all people - at five in the morning.
Hollander left no vice unturned, covering lesbiansim, bondage, and other sexual appetites with a frank tone that left the reader with no doubt that they were listening to a master…or mistress, as it were.
Which makes sense - Xaviera Hollander wasn't just any sex worker, she was the most famous sex worker of the time and her time in the spotlight went beyond the normal fifteen minutes of fame, making her a pop culture icon.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Xaviera-Hollander   (634 words)

  
 Child No More: A Memoir (Xaviera Hollander)
Xaviera has managed to captivate the 20th Century without losing herself into that what would have sold best, her life as the happy hooker.
When Xaviera used to invite you to her home to one of her very special parties, her mother would always be there.
Both Xaviera and her mother kept him alive by talking about him openly and in that way he was always there.
www.abduct.com /shopaaer/us/product/0060014172.htm   (565 words)

  
 Xaviera Hollander
Xaviera Hollander is a former prostitute and madam, best known as the author of The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (1971, ISBN 00 60 01 4164).
The book was notable for its frankness at the time and is considered a landmark of positive writing about sex.
For many years, she wrote an advice column for Penthouse magazine.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/xa/Xaviera_Hollander.html   (71 words)

  
 Xaviera P R E S E N T S. Xaviera Hollander. New Book: Child No More. In Her Earlier Autobiographical Bo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Xaviera Hollander (born June 15, 1943) is a former prostitute and madam, best known as the author of The Happy Hooker.
Xaviera Hollander visits Borders Books and Music to sign her book for her 30th anniversary of Xaviera Hollander visits Borders Books and Music to sign.
Xaviera Hollander did not invent sex: she was one of the leading spirits who brought it out of the closet.
www.99hosted.com /names4785.html   (312 words)

  
 Xaviera Hollander - The woman behind the Myth - biography
Xaviera lives in Marbella, Spain but spends much of the year in Holland where her house is a centre for artists, writers, musicians and friends from all walks of life drawn to her by her encouragement and friendliness--and the fun of living.
Xaviera who had not written any new books for the past 14 years, suddenly was aware of the fact that she was a CHILD NO MORE and based on her memories and her adventures with her parents she started to write the book with that title.
Xaviera is willing to read from any of her 18 previous books of course, all more or less of an erotic subject matter but prefers reading from her latest book CHILD NO MORE.
www.xs4all.nl /~xaviera/books/biography.html   (998 words)

  
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As Hollander recalls in her new memoir, "Child No More," "if men were ready, willing, even eager to pay me for what I wanted to do anyway, why not accept gracefully?" With celebrities among her many illustrious clients, she got rich, quickly -- and wrote a book about it, just for fun.
Hollander, scheduled to read from her memoir at the Booksmith in San Francisco on June 12, has long been fond of stories "steeped in East European lore" like the ones in Reichlin's show.
In Hollander's eyes, her new career is not so much at odds with the work that first made her famous.
www.jewishsf.com /bk020531/et30.shtml   (831 words)

  
 Xaviera Hollander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Xaviera Hollander [Vera de Vries] (born June 15, 1943 in Surabaya, Indonesia, of a Jewish father and Roman Catholic mother) is a former call girl/madam, best known as the author of The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (1971, ISBN 0060014164).
The book was notable for its frankness at the time and is considered a landmark of positive writing about sex.
Her latest book Child No More is the heartfelt story of Xaviera losing her mother.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xaviera_Hollander   (177 words)

  
 Xaviera Hollander's official website. Xaviera is author of "The Happy Hooker and organizer of english theatre in ...
Xaviera is author of "The Happy Hooker and organizer of english theatre in Amsterdam.
Hollander's theatrical endeavours have developed over the years, from hosting parties at her home in Stadionweg, Amsterdam, to "happy cooker" themed dinner parties ("I charged NLG 75 for the evening and gave out free wine.
Hollander's latest show, Shylock, is on at the Het Vindingrijk theatre in Utrechtsedwarsstraat 13, from 25-28 October.
www.xavierahollander.com   (1350 words)

  
 The Happy Hooker: My Own Story by Xaviera Hollander, Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 0060014164
In her new epilogue, Hollander rather questionably attests that although her stories may not be as shocking or taboo now as they were in 1972, "the business of sex [has] a new relevance" since September 11.
Xaviera Hollander may be the happy hooker but she smashes the sterotypes by being an educated, intelligent and artitulate narrator.
Xaviera's former "fag" friends, whom she sometimes patronizes, are now "gay," for instance, and her encounter with a German shepherd in South Africa, of which she once wrote, "I'd be a moral fraud if I ignored it," is eliminated completely.
www.comparebookprices.ca /book_detail/0060014164   (1304 words)

  
 the Happy Hooker -- Xaviera Hollander IN PERSON! : Indybay
Xaviera revolutionized talk of sex and prostitution in the 1970s with her tell-all book, then continued to dispense savvy, frisky, good-humored sex advice through her long-running Penthouse column.
Xaviera will be back to do a workshop with Dragon and Soleil from 1--4:30 on Sunday, February 12; please arrive between 12:30 and 1.
Xaviera is the larger than life figure who swept into American consciousness with the publication of the Happy Hooker and forever changed how we thought about sex.
www.indybay.org /newsitems/2006/02/06/87023.php   (333 words)

  
 Advocate, The: The Happy Hooker gets the girl: "Happy Hooker" Xaviera Hollander tells all about her new memoir, her ...
Born in Indonesia, Hollander was confined, along with her parents, for her first two years inside Japanese prison camps.
But when Hollander's mother died three years ago, she was moved by the desire, after years of craving the spotlight herself, to celebrate her mother's life and her sacrifices.
Hollander's mother went on to stand by her daughter through years of controversy around her well-documented sexcapades.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2002_August_20/ai_90164079   (815 words)

  
 Xaviera Hollander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
As I learned from visiting her website (of course she has one, any woman with that kind of smarts is gonna take advantage of any and all technology available to her) she's practically an industry all her own.
Visitors to her web world can not only keep up with all of Xaviera's various projects, they can get a more personal peek into her life via her posts of selected recipes she enjoys making and jokes she finds funny.
Taking into account that she and her parents were imprisoned during the W.W.II Japanese occupation of Indonesia and that by the time of the book's publication both of her parents had passed on, it's easy to see why this book has a more serious tone.
www.crimsonandcherry.com /sex/xaviera.html   (853 words)

  
 Xaviera Hollander's History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Xaviera Hollander did not invent sex: she was one of the leading spirits who brought it out of the closet.
Xaviera lives in Marbella, Spain but spends part of the year in Holland where her house is a centre for artists, writers, musicians and friends from all walks of life drawn to her by her encouragement and friendliness--and the fun of living.
Friends have flocked to enjoy her culinary skill, such as 80 guests at "Xaviera's Christmas Party", together with diversions provided by musicians, poets and raconteurs, even the occasional magician in the friendly ambience provided by Xaviera.
www.xaviera.com /history.html   (836 words)

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